They say that your mother has gone. They say, ""She is not your mother anymore ... The disease has taken over her mind ... The dementia has disconnected her from her rationality...."" But this is not so. Angela never stopped being the person that she had been. Right to the end of her last breath, she never stopped thinking about other people and their needs ... The past and the present became one ... Time and space were unified in the reality of remembered episodes, bursts of memories that presented themselves to her mind in cinematic snapshots. With this opening in Thank you Lady, the author turns upside down the established view of dementia. A memoir of Angela's life - as it reveals itself through her conversations and interactions with family, friends and carers - it challenges the reader to see that dementia is not a disease but a disability.